Anna Henderson
@annamhnz.bsky.social
Ecology, scicomm, writing, outdoors, rugby, foodie #Aotearoa
That is a thick bill! 😍
Thick-billed Spiderhunter (Arachnothera crassirostris)
Family Nectariniidae (Spiderhunters and Sunbirds)
Range: forest of peninsular Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo
IUCN status: Least Concern
Family Nectariniidae (Spiderhunters and Sunbirds)
Range: forest of peninsular Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo
IUCN status: Least Concern
ML122782971 - Thick-billed Spiderhunter - Macaulay Library
© Charley Hesse • Naturally Adventurous Podcast; Sabah, Malaysia; 06 Nov 2018
macaulaylibrary.org
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
That is a thick bill! 😍
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From the current WJO issue - a review of Roger Pasquier's book Birds at Rest: The Behavior and Ecology of Avian Sleep. "An admirable synopsis of a complex and multidimensional subject." #ornithology
Birds at rest: the behavior and ecology of avian sleep
Published in The Wilson Journal of Ornithology (Vol. 137, No. 4, 2025)
doi.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
From the current WJO issue - a review of Roger Pasquier's book Birds at Rest: The Behavior and Ecology of Avian Sleep. "An admirable synopsis of a complex and multidimensional subject." #ornithology
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Huge News from the Western Amazon: it's the year 2025 and we are still describing entirely new, strikingly-distinctive large-bodied bird species! Behold Tinamus resonans sp. nov. the Slaty-masked Tinamou mapress.com/zt/article/v... #Ornithology @tetzoo.bsky.social 🪶
December 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Huge News from the Western Amazon: it's the year 2025 and we are still describing entirely new, strikingly-distinctive large-bodied bird species! Behold Tinamus resonans sp. nov. the Slaty-masked Tinamou mapress.com/zt/article/v... #Ornithology @tetzoo.bsky.social 🪶
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Our December issue is out now!🌏
Includes topics such as...
👉 Direct & indirect effects of fire on tick populations🔥
👉Spatial & temporal determinants of oyster settlement rates🦪
👉Structural equation modelling in wildlife ecology review🧪
Read it 👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652664...
Includes topics such as...
👉 Direct & indirect effects of fire on tick populations🔥
👉Spatial & temporal determinants of oyster settlement rates🦪
👉Structural equation modelling in wildlife ecology review🧪
Read it 👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652664...
December 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Our December issue is out now!🌏
Includes topics such as...
👉 Direct & indirect effects of fire on tick populations🔥
👉Spatial & temporal determinants of oyster settlement rates🦪
👉Structural equation modelling in wildlife ecology review🧪
Read it 👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652664...
Includes topics such as...
👉 Direct & indirect effects of fire on tick populations🔥
👉Spatial & temporal determinants of oyster settlement rates🦪
👉Structural equation modelling in wildlife ecology review🧪
Read it 👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652664...
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First detected in May 2023 in Lake Karāpiro, a reservoir lake on the Waikato, this bivalve is now altering the river’s chemistry in ways that could jeopardise drinking water for up to two million people, disrupt hydroelectric power and undermine decades of ecosystem restoration efforts.
Gold clam invasion in NZ threatens drinking water for millions of people
The invasion threatens more than water. Clams could foul dam intakes and reduce hydroelectric efficiency in a river that generates 13% of New Zealand’s power.
theconversation.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
First detected in May 2023 in Lake Karāpiro, a reservoir lake on the Waikato, this bivalve is now altering the river’s chemistry in ways that could jeopardise drinking water for up to two million people, disrupt hydroelectric power and undermine decades of ecosystem restoration efforts.
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Analysis: Finance Minister Nicola Willis effectively confirmed Tuesday that New Zealand will not meet its 2030 climate target under the Paris Agreement under the current Government’s policies.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/03/g...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/03/g...
Govt accused of breaching Paris climate deal after Willis rules out buying credits
Analysis: Finance Minister Nicola Willis effectively confirmed New Zealand will not meet its 2030 climate target under the current Govt's policies.
newsroom.co.nz
December 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Analysis: Finance Minister Nicola Willis effectively confirmed Tuesday that New Zealand will not meet its 2030 climate target under the Paris Agreement under the current Government’s policies.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/03/g...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/03/g...
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one thousand five hundred and twenty six schools pledging to continue giving effect to te tiriti in education.
our government doesn't represent the future of this country
David Seymour has LOST a generational battle
our government doesn't represent the future of this country
David Seymour has LOST a generational battle
December 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
one thousand five hundred and twenty six schools pledging to continue giving effect to te tiriti in education.
our government doesn't represent the future of this country
David Seymour has LOST a generational battle
our government doesn't represent the future of this country
David Seymour has LOST a generational battle
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The abolishment of regional councils will be a significantly expensive exercise for local government.
The rates caps proposal will impose additional costs on local government.
That's two new costs imposed on local government for right wing ideological reasons in just the last week alone.
The rates caps proposal will impose additional costs on local government.
That's two new costs imposed on local government for right wing ideological reasons in just the last week alone.
They would if they could i.e. if Central Government did not keep loading unfunded costs on to them.
#nzpol
#nzpol
December 1, 2025 at 3:57 AM
The abolishment of regional councils will be a significantly expensive exercise for local government.
The rates caps proposal will impose additional costs on local government.
That's two new costs imposed on local government for right wing ideological reasons in just the last week alone.
The rates caps proposal will impose additional costs on local government.
That's two new costs imposed on local government for right wing ideological reasons in just the last week alone.
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Food contamination scandals are usually when the problem is not visible, this is food with visible furry mould OMG
How is it even possible for school lunches to be mouldy!!!
Seymour should be eating only mouldy food until he makes school lunches good again. #NZPol
Seymour should be eating only mouldy food until he makes school lunches good again. #NZPol
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Food contamination scandals are usually when the problem is not visible, this is food with visible furry mould OMG
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I don't know what I was expecting but Terry's Chocolate Mint being orange shaped had me buffering.
a woman is looking at a triangle with a mathematical equation written on it .
Alt: Confused about math . meme
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I don't know what I was expecting but Terry's Chocolate Mint being orange shaped had me buffering.
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Here's another candidate for favourite New Zealand plant, the beautiful pīngao. It's great at stabilising sand and is used for traditional Māori weaving, but is threatened by coastal development, sea level rise and the invasive marram grass.
December 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Here's another candidate for favourite New Zealand plant, the beautiful pīngao. It's great at stabilising sand and is used for traditional Māori weaving, but is threatened by coastal development, sea level rise and the invasive marram grass.
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The lunch program Seymour put in place has been an absolute, unmitigated disaster. And likely on purpose, to prove free lunch programs "don't work" and should be stopped forever. It's ridiculous.
CompassNZ is despicable. Taking our tax dollars to provide disgusting mouldy, contaminated food to our children. Read their website, according to CompassNZ they’re “Nourishing Aotearoa’s Future: The School Lunch Collective in Action” The board should be named and shamed for this fiasco. 1/2 #nzpol
Food poisoning warning after Christchurch students eat contaminated school lunches
Parents have been asked to watch for symptoms of food poisoning after some lunches were eaten.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The lunch program Seymour put in place has been an absolute, unmitigated disaster. And likely on purpose, to prove free lunch programs "don't work" and should be stopped forever. It's ridiculous.
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Our place isn't visible from the street, so when our soft toys got disappointed that they couldn't take part in the bear hunt, I made a colouring in page of them looking wistfully out the window, and shared it on the local FB page. I did another 2 from photos people sent me of their bears.
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Our place isn't visible from the street, so when our soft toys got disappointed that they couldn't take part in the bear hunt, I made a colouring in page of them looking wistfully out the window, and shared it on the local FB page. I did another 2 from photos people sent me of their bears.
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While incredibly sad, this doesn't surprise me in the least.
This government has proven time and time again to be completely incapable of imagining and catering to a world outside of their own carefully curated bubbles. #nzpol
This government has proven time and time again to be completely incapable of imagining and catering to a world outside of their own carefully curated bubbles. #nzpol
My nephew is dyslexic and his high school offers an alternative learning track for students like him.
My sister called the school yesterday to confirm she'd like him enrolled in that programme and was told it might not be available next year because the new curriculum doesn't include it. 😱😱
#nzpol
My sister called the school yesterday to confirm she'd like him enrolled in that programme and was told it might not be available next year because the new curriculum doesn't include it. 😱😱
#nzpol
November 28, 2025 at 3:57 AM
While incredibly sad, this doesn't surprise me in the least.
This government has proven time and time again to be completely incapable of imagining and catering to a world outside of their own carefully curated bubbles. #nzpol
This government has proven time and time again to be completely incapable of imagining and catering to a world outside of their own carefully curated bubbles. #nzpol
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My nephew is dyslexic and his high school offers an alternative learning track for students like him.
My sister called the school yesterday to confirm she'd like him enrolled in that programme and was told it might not be available next year because the new curriculum doesn't include it. 😱😱
#nzpol
My sister called the school yesterday to confirm she'd like him enrolled in that programme and was told it might not be available next year because the new curriculum doesn't include it. 😱😱
#nzpol
November 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
My nephew is dyslexic and his high school offers an alternative learning track for students like him.
My sister called the school yesterday to confirm she'd like him enrolled in that programme and was told it might not be available next year because the new curriculum doesn't include it. 😱😱
#nzpol
My sister called the school yesterday to confirm she'd like him enrolled in that programme and was told it might not be available next year because the new curriculum doesn't include it. 😱😱
#nzpol
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Since you won mayor whoever is managing your social media has stopped using alt text. Can you please start again?
The climate crisis won’t wait and neither will we. With this team, we’ll meet it head-on.
November 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Since you won mayor whoever is managing your social media has stopped using alt text. Can you please start again?
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Stuff might actually be trying to do some climate coverage after just forgetting about it lately. Opportunity here to tell them how it's affecting you #nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Flooded nine times in six years, residents say their cul-de-sac is in the ‘too hard basket’
“I’m at the mercy of whoever can get a boat.”
www.stuff.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Stuff might actually be trying to do some climate coverage after just forgetting about it lately. Opportunity here to tell them how it's affecting you #nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
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📢 New publication in NZJE!
🌿 Alpine skinks persist 12 months post-translocation with no initial evidence of weka predation
🌿 Lead author: Clare Gunton University of Otago
newzealandecology.org/nzje/3620
🌿 Alpine skinks persist 12 months post-translocation with no initial evidence of weka predation
🌿 Lead author: Clare Gunton University of Otago
newzealandecology.org/nzje/3620
Alpine skinks persist 12 months post-translocation with no initial evidence of weka predation | NZES
newzealandecology.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
📢 New publication in NZJE!
🌿 Alpine skinks persist 12 months post-translocation with no initial evidence of weka predation
🌿 Lead author: Clare Gunton University of Otago
newzealandecology.org/nzje/3620
🌿 Alpine skinks persist 12 months post-translocation with no initial evidence of weka predation
🌿 Lead author: Clare Gunton University of Otago
newzealandecology.org/nzje/3620
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Boards Chair here - before our BOT passed a motion affirming our commitment to Te Tiriti, I received emails from parents and teachers urging the board on.
The union never said a word.
Amazing that reaffirming a commitment to Te Tiriti is viewed as "anti-govt" (his words)
The union never said a word.
Amazing that reaffirming a commitment to Te Tiriti is viewed as "anti-govt" (his words)
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Boards Chair here - before our BOT passed a motion affirming our commitment to Te Tiriti, I received emails from parents and teachers urging the board on.
The union never said a word.
Amazing that reaffirming a commitment to Te Tiriti is viewed as "anti-govt" (his words)
The union never said a word.
Amazing that reaffirming a commitment to Te Tiriti is viewed as "anti-govt" (his words)
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NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable in which Rubio orders diplomats in Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to press for immigration limits and cite crime. They’re also told to report on governments that are pro-immigration. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable in which Rubio orders diplomats in Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to press for immigration limits and cite crime. They’re also told to report on governments that are pro-immigration. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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“Rubio orders…”
Who the hell made him king of Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand?
Who the hell made him king of Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand?
NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable in which Rubio orders diplomats in Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to press for immigration limits and cite crime. They’re also told to report on governments that are pro-immigration. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“Rubio orders…”
Who the hell made him king of Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand?
Who the hell made him king of Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand?
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The government’s god-awful plan for regional councils will further reduce the already lax and under-resourced oversight of destructive behaviours like this 👇
#nzpol
#nzpol
Despite warnings, between 1 Feb – 3 Oct 2023, 26 inspections found effluent being discharged from a piggery to adjacent land then flowing into streams that flow to the Waihou River. Yes, they’ve been fined, but it's repeated environmental & health vandalism and the piggery can still operate 🧵
Watch: Raw effluent from piggery gushes into local streams
Toxic effluent from the farm polluted streams feeding the Waihou River.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The government’s god-awful plan for regional councils will further reduce the already lax and under-resourced oversight of destructive behaviours like this 👇
#nzpol
#nzpol
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Black Friday hearing-aid deals highlight deep problems in an industry where sales pressure can overshadow genuine hearing care.
What Black Friday reveals about the hearing aid industry
newsroom.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Black Friday hearing-aid deals highlight deep problems in an industry where sales pressure can overshadow genuine hearing care.
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Which QEII are you today? I'm a firm 8
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Which QEII are you today? I'm a firm 8
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Hang on, is this about NZ or the USA?
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Hang on, is this about NZ or the USA?